HOST: DAPHNE BRAMHAM

Daphne has been a columnist at The Vancouver Sun since 2000 after having been the editorial page editor and the Asia-Pacific reporter. As a columnist, her work has centred on social justice issues involving both human rights and animal rights and has resulted in a number of awards and honours. Aside from her work, Daphne’s longstanding passions are travelling and eating, particularly in Asia. Her first visit to Asia was in the late 1980s and since then Daphne has been there dozens of times – both on assignments and for pleasure. Her most recent trip was to Mongolia in 2013.

But it’s South East Asia that keeps drawing her back and the Malaysian states on Borneo are among her favourite destinations. This will be Daphne’s fifth trip there. Why? Because there’s no place on Earth like it. It’s not just because Borneo is the only place where orangutans live in the wild. It’s because there is so much to see and experience from the longhouses of Dayaks, whose ancestors once collected the heads of their enemies, to the caves where people climb seemingly endlessly high ladders to harvest bird’s nests to roti canai and rich, spicy bowls of curried laksa served steaming hot at food stalls in Kuching soon after dawn.

Join Daphne in exploring some of her favourite places and discovering new ones.